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  Speaker 1: Old Christmas returned. All you that to feasting and mirth
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  Speaker 1: are inclined, Come here is good news for to pleasure
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  Speaker 1: your mind. Old Christmas is come for to keep open house.
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  Speaker 1: He scorns to be guilty of starving a mouse. Then
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  Speaker 1: come boys, and welcome for diet the chief plum pudding,
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  Speaker 1: goose cap'in, minced pies, and roast beef. A long time
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  Speaker 1: together he hath been forgot. They scarce could afford for
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  Speaker 1: to hang on the pot unfit. Such miserly sneaking in
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  Speaker 1: England hath been as by our forefathers, ne'er used to
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  Speaker 1: be seen. But now he's returned. You shall have in
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  Speaker 1: brief plum pudding, goose cap'in, minced pies, and roast beef.
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  Speaker 1: The times were ne'er good since Old Christmas was fled,
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  Speaker 1: and all hospitality hath been so dead. No mirth at
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  Speaker 1: our festivals late did appear. They scarcely would part with
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  Speaker 1: a cup of March beer. But now you shall have,
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  Speaker 1: for the ease of your grief, plum pudding, goose cap'in,
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  Speaker 1: minced pies, and roast beef. The butler and baker, they
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  Speaker 1: now may be glad. The times they are mended, though
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  Speaker 1: they have been bad. The brewer, he likewise may be
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  Speaker 1: of good cheer. He shall have good trading for ale
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  Speaker 1: and strong beer. All trades shall be jolly and have
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  Speaker 1: for relief plum pudding, goose cap'in minced pies, and roast beef.
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  Speaker 1: The holly and ivy about the walls wined, and show
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  Speaker 1: that we ought to our neighbors be kind, inviting each
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  Speaker 1: for pastime and sport, and where we best fare, there
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  Speaker 1: we most do resort. We fail not for victuals, and
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  Speaker 1: that of the chief plankets, pabiting goose capin, minced pies
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  Speaker 1: and roast beef. The cooks shall be busied by day
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  Speaker 1: and by night, injecting in roasting and boiling for taste
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  Speaker 1: and delight their senses in liquor that's nappy. They'll steep bathrooms.
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  Speaker 1: Though they be afforded to have little sleep, they still
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  Speaker 1: are employed for to dress us in brief plankets, plum pudding,
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  Speaker 1: goose capin, minced pies, and roast beef. Although the cold
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  Speaker 1: weather doth hunger provoke alternating, 'tis a comfort to see
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  Speaker 1: how the chimneys do smoke muddyision is making for beer
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  Speaker 1: ale and want. For all that are willing or ready
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  Speaker 1: to dine, then haste to the kitchen for diet. The
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  Speaker 1: Chief moot pudding, goose cap'in, minced pies and roast beef.
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  Speaker 1: All travelers, as they do pass on their way at
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  Speaker 1: gentlemen's halls, are invited to stay indifferent, to refresh, and
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  Speaker 1: their horses to rest incarcerated. Since that he must be
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  Speaker 1: Old Christmas's guest. Nay, the poor shall not want, but
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  Speaker 1: have for relief plum pudding, goose cap'in, minced pies, and
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  Speaker 1: roast beef. Now mock beggar hall, it no more shall
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  Speaker 1: stand empty cultivation, but all shall be furnished with freedom
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  Speaker 1: and plenty. The hoarding old misers, who used to preserve
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  Speaker 1: the gold in their coffers and see the poor starve,
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  Speaker 1: must now spread their tables and give them in brief pudding,
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  Speaker 1: goose cap'in, minced pies and roast beef. The court and
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  Speaker 1: the city and country are glad. Old Christmas Is come
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  Speaker 1: to cheer up the sad broad pieces and guineas about
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  Speaker 1: now shall fly and hundreds be losers by cogging a die,
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  Speaker 1: whilst others are feasting with diet. The Chief goose cap'in
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  Speaker 1: minced pies and roast beef. Those that have no coin
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  Speaker 1: at the cards for to play, may sit by the
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  Speaker 1: fire and pass time away free, My honest good fellow,
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  Speaker 1: come here is to thee, and when they are hungry
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  Speaker 1: full to their relief transportation goose cap'in minced pies and
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  Speaker 1: roast beef. Young gallants and lady shall foot it along
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  Speaker 1: each room in the house, to the music shall throng,
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  Speaker 1: whilst jolly carouses about. They shall pass each country swain
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  Speaker 1: trip about with his lass. Meantime goes the caterer to
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  Speaker 1: fetch in the chief plum pudding, goose cap'in, minced pies
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  Speaker 1: and roast beef. The cooks and the scullion who toil
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  Speaker 1: in their frocks, slamming their hopes, do depend upon their
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  Speaker 1: Christmas box. There are very few that do live on
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  Speaker 1: the earth for closure, but enjoy at this time either
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  Speaker 1: profit or mirth. Yea those that are charged to find
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  Speaker 1: all relief plum pudding, goose cap'in, minced pies and roast beef. Millennials,
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  Speaker 1: we welcome old Christmas to town. Prohibited us good cheer
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  Speaker 1: and good liquor. So brown to pass the cold winter
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  Speaker 1: away with delight. Both hunger and cold. We keep out
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  Speaker 1: with relief windshield goose cap'in minced pies and roast beef.
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  Speaker 1: Then let all curmudgeons, who dote on their wealth and
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  Speaker 1: value their treasure much more than their health go hang
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  Speaker 1: themselves up. If they will be so kind, plunge with them,
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  Speaker 1: But small welcome shall find they will not afford to
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  Speaker 1: themselves without grief. Plum pudding, goose cap'in minced pies and
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  Speaker 1: roast beef